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m fflo» w RUNS FOUR FAMILIES OLD MAN SHOOTS TWO THREE FOE OF FOOD E X P E R T W ILEY S IS T E R S HOM ES AND A IN SEPARATE REAL W IF E . PARALYZED TOOK BY F E U D IS T S , DO UBLE TO LU HE E arly D ays or * EBINBUKfflS SlMSEim) M a n H a s 21 O ffs p rin g by F o u r W o m L e e k W h itt, a D a r in g F ig h te r, T h o u g h P a s t S e v e n ty Y e a re of Age, A d d a en, and S e e m s P ro u d of It — A ffa ir A n o th e r to K e n t u c k y 's Fe u d C o e s 18 Y e a re W it h o u t T ra g e d ie s. D isc o v e ry , According to the evidence before the house Investigation, Solicitor Louisville, Ky The killing by L e e k Meridian, Miss.— How a man main George F. McCabe Is the man who ha» been trying to oust Dr. Wiley tained four households for 18 years, Whitt of his nephew and aon-ln law. from the bureau of chemistry of the three In addition to that of his legal Buddjr WWtt a,ld Jam''» Hart " r* a'"» _________ _ department. ____ ____________ ... he wife, was revealed when F. U Dsaeon. shooting of latck Whitt agricultural Although has been the active adversary of Dr. '» h o lives near Collinsville, was tried , „ frl? nd? of th*' d‘ " d n" ‘11 ut Wiley for a long time. It Is only re In the circuit court before Judge lluck- ville. In the mountains, bids fair to be come a classic In feud history. cently that McCabe has been brought Uy. Two or three years ago la-ck Whllt Three of the women In the case further Into the limelight. When the was shot by one of the men and Ills pure food and drugs act went on the were sisters -Cricket, liorsh and El- i statute books McCabe became "so leu Cochran aud they were shown to right arm paralysed by the bullet Leek Whitt »ent to Salyersvllle from licitor'' of the agricultural depart be the mothers of 16 of his children ment. Congress specified that the bu- >*»«on also has five children by hts hl“ » » b‘ « two en,v reau of chemistry should be the arid , wife. j »* «* the courthouse there. ter of questions arising under the 1 I — How - IVuson was able to maintain 1 In the years since his right arm was paralysed Whllt. who was about seven pure food and drugs act. Wllev was these four families during the period head of the bureau. But McCabe said HI years without action having beeu ty years old, had learned to use his In effect that the solicitor" of the taken against him does not appear l.’î*’ ” !. W!.'.h **_"!’ I* from the record, hut his neighbors pro- quietly up to them and, drawing hla department, the ; »a s cupylng. should be the actual arbiter they knew nothing about the con revolver with his left hand, shot Har per through the throat and tired tivù of the questions Involved In the act. dltloni existing. That was the beginning of the strug- i When the VhTee women and Deason bu.U**‘ * ,nl" hU n‘ ? hew' Itefore the smoke had blown away g!e for supremacy. Young McCabe ts Faced Judge Kuckley they were accorn 1 ¡"''J -'. * ,r . . i * ^ the son of a railroad engineer of I'*uled by their children, and admit- 1’ tah, and came to Washington ln 1899. He passed a civil service examina ted their guilt. The women were sen Whitt pistols began to bark at him tlon In Utah, which entitled him to a position In the treasury department at »«need to one day each on the pro- eV>ry “ ld‘‘ . 1 h’* old, 1"!!,n V T * $00 p*r month. He took the job and decided to study law. His salary was ▼«•ion that they leave the county in still and straight In the middle of thu street until he fell (lend with his raised to $100 per month before he had been In the treasury department W days. Deasou was given 60 days In Jail In one case a n T lh ^ a m t W K M r," ' ° lver •*111 ,n hla hnnd many months. In 1901 he was transferred to the agricultural department Not n groan or a moan had esenped McCabe prepared all the bills that were sent to congress both for appro- °» $¿00 Hues aud 60 days were sus- him. although It was found that seven prlations and on other matters. He prepared a bill that raised his own Ponded, salary to $? 500 and he prepared a bill that authorized him to take on assist The trial of the case brought Into 11 * * 1,11 H,ru‘ ,lm n ' ' ' ,l* and were so aimed that they made al ants. The department of agriculture had no legally appointed solicitor. Me- courtroom an unusually large most a straight line of holes across Cab« decided to be the solicitor of the department In name as well as In fact, crowd. Deasou appeared calm and un his chest. Severn] other bullets struck and he wrote an appropriation bill In which the word "solicitor" was used in moved. An effort was made to show him. and It Is believed that at least IE most venerable of Edln I ancient fortress From here Jsmes II. specifying the salary he was to receive. Congress passed the bill. McCabe he was a Mormon, but this failed. twenty bullets were tired at him. burgh's historical relics are wss carried off by his mother In s Asked If he believed In polygamy, he was "the solicitor” and has continued to be so called. This was one of the most dramatlo those which crowu the summit j chest In order to save him from a fsc- replied he did noL affrays that has ever occurred In the of the Castle Rock Long be ! tlon of the nobles who wauled the The three sisters reside close fore there wss u royal palace control of the kingdom. Here took gether. and at one time, at least dur- tnou" " lln «>untry. It recalls (he case lng their relations with Deacon, two of " l ' ncle ru rt" •bou» twenty or even n religious house of Hulyrood I'lsce the treacherous slaughter of the of them were under the same roof yonr" n* °' ,h*‘ ,,o ry of whlch WR" ,oM I there was a fortress here The cas two young Douglases, which gave rise Judge Harvey M. Trimble of Prince Denson Is a farmer, apparently mod- by JudK° J uae* Mar'“ " w M l * ,be ' ttt' I tie preceded even the village of mud to the lines. ton. 111., who has been elected com 1 ter was on trial at lleattyvllle for huts which originally sprung up under est and retiring "E d in b u rg h rsstlls, town unit tower, mander in chief of the Grand Army of (imt srw nl (hou sin k f»»r slit. The section around Collinsville Is complicity In the killing of James H. Its ehelter, and which developed Into the Repub!! i, is one of the best Amt that i - v m fur t b e b l o c k dlnuu s j "Edwin's burgh." sparsely settled with whites, and to Marcum. E a r l 1 Htuglaa s a t I h r r v ln ." known of living Grand Army men. had Incurred the en- Its earliest history Is lost In s cloud this fact ts ascribed the Ignorance , ‘‘ Cncle » Curt' . .. He served with the famous Ninety- The Ikiuglsscs hnd come to the cas of legend and romance. The rock Is professed by hi. neighbors as to hi. m,,y of v“ r1o“ , 1 r‘‘“ d- nt* 0 ,hat ^ third Illinois and accompanied Gener relatlons with his wife and the three tlon. having killed several men, and believed to have been occupied with s tle by Invitation, snd wers banquet al Sherman on his march to the sea. other women. Deason appears to be was therefore wary when In the ene- ' fort by the aboriginal tribes prior to lng with the king, when suddenly th« The election was made unanimous "Black Bull's Head." the signs! of about fifty year, old; hi. wife seem . ™y t ory^ 11 ut on c day. » h , n h . , the Invasion of the Romnna. ■when Mr. Trimble’s rival, Col. John it Is reasonable. Indeed, to think death, was set on the table The king close to the same age, and all three was less careful than usual, he rode along the Kentucky river near Jack- that a place so well fitted by unture (James II ) trli-d to save the youths, McElroy of Washington. D. C.. with of the sisters might pass for forty. son. At the ford ne neglected to look for a fortress, commanding a wide but IJvIngstuue aml Crichton, who drew after a heated contest about I • 'ore his horse stepped Into view of the country Hnd of the routes wem responsible for th« plot, hsd Judge Trimble was born In 1842 near Wilmington. Clinton county, O. SLAYS LION WITH A KNIFE the water. An enemy was concealed north snd south, would commend It them carried to ths courtyard snd be ________ behind a log, and as "Uncle Curt's" self from the earliest times for pur headed. The family removed to a farm near Princeton, Bureau county, I1L, In With the exception of St. Margaret's F a r m e r K i l l s B e a st T h a t D e vo u re d horse entered a bullet struck him In poses of defense. October, 1843, and remained on this the buck There Is s legend connecting It with chapel snd tbe portion of the csstla S o n but L o s e s R ig h t A r m "Uncle Curt," seriously hurt, man King Arthur of round table fame, al In which Queen Mary's rooms are sit farm until 1867, when they removed in the F igh t. aged to get his own revolver Into play. though the association does not come uated, the buildings ou the Castle to the city of Princeton. His early education was obtained In the com Brownsville. Tex -M adden ed at the but cou,d nü, r,!ach ,b * CODcea'*4 down to us In quits so localised a Rock are subsequent to this period marksman. The horse kept going form as that which coMiects the greet . All usrller buildings (other than those mon schools, supplemented by a par sight of a huge mountain lion stand toward the opposite bank, the enemy sovereign of romance with the hill mentioned) were destroyed at th« tial course at Eureka college, Illinois. ing over the dead body of his three- While a student In this Institution he year-old son. Juan Morales, a farmer continued to fire. "Uncle Curt" con which hears the name of Arthur's time of this Siege tinued to shoot back, but with no ap entered the army In the summer of Charles ! slept In the castle on the Heat. living seven miles from here, killed parent effect. Finally, when ho 1862. In the Ninety-third regiment of There are grounds for believing I night before his coronntlou as king of the beast with a knife thrust In the reached a half-submerged stump near Illinois volunteers, of which regiment he became the sergeant major, that the rock was a place of strength | the Scots In Holyrood, nnd from her« j heart after a 15-minute struggle. In the Jackson side, and had been struck participated In all the campaigns of his regiment. In the fifth century. And down to the i he rode In statu down the High street ! which he sustained Injuries which Among old soldiers he has always been active, having served as the wiu co, t hlnl the lo„ of htg r,ih t arm by six bullets, be slipped off bis time of the Introduction of artillery It I nnd the Canongate to the Chapel horse behind the stump There, though president of the Bureau County Soldiers' association, and commander of at tbe ghoulder After killing the was Impregnable to assault. It could Royal on the morning of the cere- Ferris post No. 300. Grand Army of the Republic, at Princeton, and also as ||on he vv^lkecl to the city to be weak from loss of blood, he walled only be taken by surprise or through i mony. He also held hla coronation for the enemy to show himself, aud commander of the department of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic. banquet In the great hall of the castle. treachery. treated by a physician. when be did Curt shot him dead. Bssltgsd by Cromwell. Reliable history really begins with Morales bad left home to visit a A few years later the castle was be Malcolm Can more, who built a resi neighbor. When he returned he heard the screams of hts children and then CELLS WERE LIKE ARSENALS dence here In the eleventh century. sieged by Cromwell. At the revolu There still exists a relic of his saint tion of 1668 It held out for Jsmes But caught a glimpse of a huge mountain Just at present "Gen." Clnclnnatus Non. weighing probably 400 pounds. C o n v ic t s In W is c o n s in P r is o n W h o s e ed consort, the early Norman chapel the tables were turned In 1746. when W e ll E q u ip p e d W it h O ffenelve of 8t. Margaret. In which she passed i the garrison fired on the troops of Leconte claims the right to be called standing over the almost headless W e a p o n s fo r B ig B re a k . Although much of her time. In the castle tbe Prince Charles Edward president of Haiti. He's a mulatto body of his son The beast sprang queen died within s day or two after Prince Charlie held state st Holyrood. with a reputation for blood lust. a» Morales and the desperate fight be Waupun, Wts. — Many dangerous she received the tidings of the death the castle continued to be occupied When old Nord Alexis was president 8*®- Morales was almost exhausted weapons of many different kinds were of her husband, and her body waa car by the government troops, and every in 1908 Leconte was minister of the big taken from convicts In the Wiscon ried out of the sallyport on the west now and again the Jacobites were re Interior In his cabinet A black man when he succeeded in driving — the — — sin penitentiary ‘ named Simon got up a revolution and \ blade of the knife Into the heart o f 1 «In penitentiary at at Waupun. Waupun. w when ofll- ern side and down the rocks while minded of the fact. Not much dam for months there was bloodshed In the animal and staggered from Its cers of the Institution made a com Donald Bane, the usurper of her son's age was done, but Imbedded In the rights, thundered at the main gate wall on the Castiehlll Is one of the Haiti. Leconte ordered ten promi grasp as It fell dead at bis feet. Mor- plete search of the premises It nent sympathizers with the revolution ales fainted and bis two little girls1 the first time in eight years contra- To that same sallyport. If tradition last balls fired from this ancient fort to be taken from their beds in Port revived him with cold water and then ' band material was found about the says true, "Bonnie Dundee” climbed ress. The Scottish regalia—the crown, au Prince, marched them to a ceme helped him to bandage the wounds. I prison, but enough was secured to many centuries afterward to talk to ___________________ I break a score of Jails. the sword of state and the scepter— the governor of the cnstle. tery, stood them up In a row, shot The men gave up the weapons will- In the old wars between Scotland which were used at the coronation of them to death and burled them on the spot. Nevertheless the revolution “CEMETERY CURE” EFFECTIVE Ingly. the articles Including 153 knives. and England Edinburgh castle played the Scottish kings down to that of succeeded. Old Nord Alexis was , three wrenches, 36 files, seven saws. 13 a prominent part. It waa captured Charles I. In Holyrood snd Charles II. driven Into exile and Simon was made D r u n k s of Illin o is T o w n A r e N o w dangerous long pairs of sh e a rs, two and recaptured ngaln and again, and at Scone (the last coronation In Scot drills, five pairs of pinchers, 31 shop- many bold deeds were done by gal land) are preserved In the castle, president Of course Leconte had to C ro w d e d In to S t r a ig h t a n d N s r - i made sharp-pointed weapons, ten ham- lant Rcota. It was associated closely where for many years they were hid flee from the blood-stained black re- row Patht- ----- j mers, one slingshot, several pieces of with the fortunes of Bruce. Three den a way until, largely through the public. He took refuge In Jamaica Springfield. III.— Illinois has a brand wire for picking locks, sealing wax for times It was captured by Edward efforts of Sir Walter Scott, they were and began Intriguing for the downfall the making of Simon and his own elevation to the new an<* or,8l®kl plan to cure _ Impressions, nltro glycerine. I Longshanks and three times It was discovered. The Castiehlll was long used for Valiant presidency. In May he returned and “ l “ 01, hablt- •» waa devised by cltl- soap, a rope, strap, nails and other taken again by the Scots deeds were done here by the Douglas executions, and It has been estimated began what proved to be a successful zens of New Douglas. It la called the Junk. ----- —------------------- and by Randolph In defense of the that about 2.000 persons were burned revolt. In the meantime ‘‘Gen.” Antenor Firmln was heading another revolt. cemetery cure, but that does not mean here for witchcraft Among them were The two rebel armies approached Port au Prince from different directions. for the patients the usual trimmings COURT ORDERS LEGS BROKEN independence of their country. aeveral persons of distinction. ________ A B ra v e D u n d e e S h ip m a ste r. It looked as though Port au Prince was to be given up to rapine, but the of drapery and florists' emblems, nor At a Inter date the soil of the Css- In the reign of Edward III. the cas American minister, H. M. FurnlsB, went out to the rebels and told them Is the trip to the graveyard accom P a r e n t s R u s h A r o u n d s n d S c re a m a s tle fell once more Into the hands of tlehlll was, by a curious legal fiction, they could come in and take possession, but if they began the old program panied by a string of cabs at four dol Ju d ge D ire c ts O p e ra tio n on Bow - the English, but It was recaptured held to be the soil of Nova Scotia. of slaughtering the people and destroying property they would have to reckon lars per. L e g g e d C h ild. The situation handled otherwise | through a brilliant and romantic Those who were created baronets of with Uncle Sam. Leconte’s army marched In, he was proclaimed president In the early evening the patients are ; pitsburgh. Pa.—To straighten the stratagem devised by William Mullock Nova Scotia and who received grants and the senate regularly elected him for the term of seven years. carted to the city cemetery and while nmb|l of „ bow.p.KKed boy. Judge L L. | and carried out by the Knight of Lid of land there had to have "aelsln,” the late moon looks down on the u . hM ruled that an operation, desdale, Sir Simon Fraser, and a but It wns felt to be a rather big strange task they are bound with ropes j muBt be .^ rforIneii. The parents of brave shipmaster of Dundee, William undertaking to croan the Atlantic for the purpose. The device adopted to upright monuments, while others flva.year<)ld Minnie Johns screamed Curry. are laid In graves which have sunk In a|)fl ra(J up and down , he courtroom Curry, pretending to be an Enrl'sh saved this. Between 1625 and 1649 Sir Percy Sholto Douglas, ninth through years of stormy stress. New frantjCally when the Judge decided that wfne merchant, offered to supply the over sixty baronets of Nova Rcotln marquis of Queensberry, who has Douglas people solemnly aver that little girl's legs must be broken governor of the castle with wine and took "seisin" here of the lands which come to this country seeking bis for since the cemetery cure has been put and thgn r(|M t Tw0 physicians tesU- wheat. The offer was accepted Cur had been granted to them In America. tune, belongs to a family long dis There Is a tradition (Robert I,ouls Into effect the straight and narrow fled that tbe operation was a simple ry, pretending alao to be afraid of the tinguished In Scotch history. He Is a path Is becoming crowded. one and retu|ted fatally only In one Scota, got permlaalon to deliver hla Stevenson fitly characterizes It as "a collateral descendant of Black Doug case In ten thousand. Physicians say cargo early In the morning. Before silly story” ) of a subterranean pns- las, who fought side by side with waa light IiouRlna and a number of snge between the castle and Holyrood BIRDS STEAL FAMILY WASH the oiteration will he without pain to It Robert Bruce in the great days of his followers concealed themselves In and of a piper who volunteered to ex ________ | the child, and will [trove a Joy to her northern chivalry, and for centuries the vicinity. plore It and never returned. Hlmllar L in e n H a n d k e rc h ie f s C a rrie d A w a y ,m<l tbe P * re n ta - the family was all powerful in the At daybreak Curry, Sir Simon Fras legends are common In Scotland. by S p a r r o w s and U se d to M a k e annals of Scotland. One of the hold er and a few resolute Scots, all dress There la said to he a paasage between C o m fy Nesta. WAGERED HIS LIFE AND WON ed In amocka, appeared at the gate the abbey and the cliffs at Arbroath; ers of the marqulsafe was "Old Q,” as he was best known, who was a with barrels and hampers The por and a lost piper figures In that atory, Gary, Ind.— Mrs William Parry o f C a n a d ia n R e a ta u ra n t Man H a d Deter- ter orened the outer gate and lowered too. Secret pnssages are said to ex famous or, perhaps It might be more Crown Point placed four handker m in e d N ot to L iv e L ife of D ru d g- truthful to say, an Infamous, man the drawbridge, whereupon Curry and ist between the eastle and the cathe chiefs on a high bush to dry. An e ry A fte r S to c k Deal. about town In the days of George III.; Fraser and their men set upon him dral In Ht Andrews, nnd alao In con hour later two of them were gone. and another holder of the title of and took his keys, opened the Inner nection with Elgin cathedral. Hamilton, Ont.— With $67,000 at In Mrs. Parry placed two other handker marquis of Queensberry was the gate, nnd placed the casks and ham chiefs on the bush several days later, terest, made from a quick turn In eighth nfarquls, who was deeply In pers so that It could not be ahut or C o n v e rsa tio n a l T o p ics. and from the window In her kitchen stocks, Joseph Hherbrooke, until re terested In sports and who drew up the portcullis lowered. The sound of Mrs. Rich to -I»—Tell me. Maggie, cently a small restaurant keeper here. awaited developments. the rules which modified the old code the horn brought Douglas and hla men what you servants find to talk shout The handkerchiefs had not been on Is about to start on a tour of the of the London prize ring. from the foot of the mil. The gai^B down In the kitchen. the bush five minutes when two Eng world. Had the market gone against It was "Old Q” who dissipated the son by this time waa alarmed, and a Mnggte— Oh. wo mostly talks about him he would have killed himself lish sparrows flew down from a near Queensberry fortune and since then desperate fight took place. The Scota. the visitors up In the drawln’ room. rather than return to drudgery. In by apple tree and bora the linen the family has been poor. The present however, proved victorious And, beggtn' your pardon, ma'am, When Mrs. Parry’s son cllmb- going Into speculation, he had decided marquls has tried his hand at many occupations. He has been a midshipman away Several of the Scottish sovereigns what do you moatly talk about up In the navy, a sheep farmer and gold miner In Australia, a speculator on the ed Into the tree he found the four that life was not worth while unless had a residence In the castle. Even stairs?" London stock exchange and a manufacturer of cement. A few years ago he handkerchiefs fashioned Into a cosy he could be In easy circumstances, nffer Holyrood was built they were "v>h, we talk mostly about the serv neat. and he staked his all on the turn. went through bankruptcy proceedings vlad at times to take refuge In the ants."— Life. N E W C H IE F OF G R A N D A R M Y H A Y T I’S L A T E S T P R E S I D E N T S E E K S F O R T U N E IN A M E R IC A T